godofbiscuits

Wow.  This is a f'ing HOSTILE article.  Use the software that gets the job done.  Apple provided Rosetta 2 -- a GREAT piece of technology -- for a good reason.  it didn't provide it for developers, it provided it for customers.   Apple supports it.  Apple supports Intel binaries running as translated ARM binaries on Apple Silicon.  Keep in mind that your Apple Silicon Mac is *never* running emulations as these apps run.  Your Mac is *always* running native machine code -- the translation is done at install time or at first launch and that's all.    Yes, developers supporting it directly is the end-goal, but that day isn't here yet.

When *APPLE* says it's time to have Apple Silicon support in apps submitted to the App Stores or they won't be accepted, that's when the day is here. It's not up to Apple Insider to tell you that.  

KTR said:

Damn, and they pay the 30% App Store tax

Everyone downloads the app on Apple's dime.  Everyone knows about the app because of Apple.  Apple is the one-stop-shop and most KNOW about the app because of Apple.  any in-app packages are hosted by Apple.   

And oh, it's FREE, so let's see, ZERO x 30% is.... ZERO.

rhbellmor said:

Like my wife always tells me when I complain about some design feature or lack of in my new car, she tells me to design my own car.  The developers are free to design their own smartphone and App Store like I can start my own car company.  I like Apple protecting me and my smartphone.  When Apple stops doing that I’ll go back to a dumb flip phone!

Your wife is crazy.  Is that all you have to do? DESIGN?  What about manufacture, test, MAINTAIN?

Most people don’t have the wherewithal to even *import* a non-US version of a car, much less do all that.  

tylersdad said:

I will never understand people who feel the need to bite the hand that feeds. She sounds more like she was pissed about not being able to continue to work remotely, so she trashed her company…which is about as progressive as companies get…for being sexist. 

Unbelievable. She should be grateful she has such an awesome job. There are probably thousands who would gladly take her place. 

You think that a hostile work environment is "such an awesome job"?

You're not in her place.  You have ZERO insight into this.  You're a male, at that.  Apple or any corp isn't "the hand that feeds".  Getting paid is *compensation* for work done.  It's not a gift. It's not a hand out.  It's a contracted agreement.

If someone's dad who knows sh*t about what's really going on with her situation feels free to be sexist and assuming and thinks he knows what's right for her and have nothing to gain or lose, what do you think the possibilities are for others at the Apple who equally do not know her specific circumstance but may have their job performance judged on how their handling of this affects the company?

Have a bit of empathy.  Or of you can't or won't muster that much, try some sympathy.  Still lacking that and feeling a bit sociopathic here?  Silence works.

I am pretty sure that Apple isn't using the existing SVE instructions in the v8 spec, so it's that much less likely they're at all interested in that in ARMv9.   Remember, the GPU that lives in the M1 and the A-series have little/nothing to do with the ARM ISA.  And then there's all the other IP that lives in the SoC:  the matrix processor, the Neural Engine, image & camera processors, etc., many of which contribute to what Apple calls "MLCompute" that, for lack of a better comparison, is analogous to CUDA in the context of TensorFlow. 

Apple Silicon uses the same core instruction set (ISA) to ARM, and therefore the same core architecture, more or less, but it ends there. The rest is all Apple.  They do this because of their standing with ARM, their license with ARM, and the fact that they're not reselling ARM SoCs to third parties.  They have no need to be compliant for the purposes of off the shelf *anything*.